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I’ve always wondered how the economics of DDG work out, considering they’re basically a proxy for Bing with a bunch of other scraped/API-based data sources they
by dchuk 6y ago
I’ve always wondered how the economics of DDG work out, considering they’re basically a proxy for Bing with a bunch of other scraped/API-based data sources they layer on top. Are they paying Bing per query? How can that net out positively?
I suppose at their volume they’ve negotiated great API rates, but their own ads can’t possibly bring in enough revenue to cover the expenses of the API calls…
- Zhyl 6y agoGabe Weinberg has previously stated on hacker news that DDG was profitable at about 4M queries a day (it is now over 100M). The economics are that you charge more for ads than you pay for API calls. That's all there is to it, really.
- dazc 6y agoSome of the links are also affiliated. This is not exactly great for 100% 'unbiased' results but, since their main competition is Google, I think the Rubicon has already been crossed on that score?